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Sheringham, Norfolk. — About six o'clock on the morning of the 29th of June, 1953, six local fishing boats put to sea in fair weather, but a swell developed and it became misty. At ten o'clock a man told the life-boat honorary secretary that the sea had become rough for the boats, and an- other boat, manned by the life-boat motor mechanic, came ashore. The mechanic said that the weather off- shore was becoming worse, and at 10.44 the life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched. The sea was rough with an east-north-east wind. Three of the boats reached the shore on their own, but the life-boat escorted in the others and arrived back at her station at 11.30.—Rewards, £22 '2s. 6d..